The Philippine President on February 11 ordered the Acting Health Secretary to ensure that all necessary preventive measures are taken to prevent the spread of the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) after an infection was confirmed.

Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien urged officials yesterday to set up temporary sites to offer measles vaccines to children in mountainous and rural areas and to areas with a low rate of vaccination.

(VOV) - This year, the forestry industry will accelerate renovation of the forest management system particularly that of specialized and preventive forests, stop forest exploitation and combine forest protection and development with improvement of living conditions of planters and poverty reduction for people of ethnic minority groups.

The Health Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) was inaugurated at a ceremony on February 3 at the Ministry of Health’s General Department of Preventive Medicine, attended by Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien and American Ambassador to Vietnam Ted Osius.

Since the beginning of the year, hospitals have received some children in the Northern provinces suffering Pertussis, Tran Dac Phu, head of the Health Ministry's Preventive Health Department, said on February 1.

At a meeting on January 28 convened by the Ministry of Health, Tran Dac Phu, head of the Health Ministry's Preventive Health Department, warned that outbreaks of the H7N9 avian influenza virus that has infected 16 people and killed 3 others in China can spread to the Southern province of Vietnam.